The sisters from Broadway's Sister Act will retire their habits and vacate the convent Aug. 26. In celebration of the musical's run and the holy ladies of Sister Act, Playbill.com takes a look back at the various screen and stage nuns throughout the years.

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Here are highlights from the Broadway production of Sister Act, which opened in April 2011 starring Tony nominee Patina Miller as Deloris Van Cartier:

John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt was adapted into a 2008 film starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams as the Catholic school nuns who begin to question Father Flynn's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) relationship with Donald Miller, the only black student at the Bronx Catholic school. Here is the film's trailer:

Nunsense is a musical comedy with a book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin. The show was later adapted for television, starring Rue McClanahan. Here is a clip from the movie in which Sister Mary Amnesia sings about the pleasures of being a nun. We've also included a scene with McClanahan: